Google seems to be rapidly becoming one of the most popular search engines in use today, since
- Getting your website submitted, listed and a high ranking in Google can provide a lot of traffic to your website, usually even more than Yahoo, thus making it a popular choice for website owners AND
- Google uses link popularity to rank the web sites, which in turn results in quality search results, therefore making it a favourite among most web searchers.
How to Submit your website to Google?
You need to submit only your homepage to Google. Since google will automatically index the entire site you don't need to submit individual pages of your website.
Important Tip : Google's crawler Googlebot will follow all the links in your site. So make sure all your pages are linked otherwise some of your pages will not get indexed.
Submit to Google here
How to Get your website Listed in Google ?
Getting listed in Google is usually very fast. The time frame depends on their crawl schedule and on the number of other web sites that are in queue to be indexed before your website. For e.g., we got listed within 2 weeks and all our new pages are usually listed within a month. Therefore in our experience, Google usually lists a site within a month.
Tip:
- Make sure your web site is ready before you submit it to be listed as Google will index your entire site and content, taking keywords from the metatags as well as the content. Therefore time well spent on your web site will pay off in the long run as you will find that Google will send you the maximum amount of traffic (in our case it is triple of what Yahoo send us - and Yahoo is supposed to be the #1 Search Engine)
- Increase link popularity -Write articles, give away freebies and make your site a quality site with fresh content. Sites will automatically link to you thus, increasing your link popularity.
- Wait for a month to see new pages listed as Google usually indexes sites during the 2nd week and lists new content during the first few days of the next month. For e.g., we usually see our new content added on by the 2nd or 3rd of the month.
- Find out if you are listed in Google - Type this URL in your browser http://www.google.com/search?q=YOURDOMAIN +site:WWW.YOURDOMAIN.COM .Google will return to you a complete list of all pages that lie on yourdomain.com that exist within the Google catalog. For E.g. try http://www.google.com/ search?q=maaweb+site: www.maaweb.com
How to get a good Ranking in Google?
Getting listed in Google is pretty easy but what really matters is your ranking. Since Google uses link popularity as its most important factor in ranking web sites, getting many sites to link to you is the best way to get a high ranking in Google. Get quality links and increased visitor traffic with only minutes of submission efforts!
Tips
- Try to develop quality content, which is different from what the other sites have to offer
- Use specialized keywords instead of using generic terms. Using generic keywords would usually land you in the 30th or 40th page whereas using specialized, or a combination of keywords would get you in the 1st or 2nd page of search results.
- Write articles that have not been written and are sure to come up in the first 10 search results. For E.g., If we were to write an article on web design we would probably come up in the 100th page of search results, whereas if we were to write on 'Creating Swap Images in Fireworks' we would probably come up in the first 10 search results.
- Make sure all your important keywords appear in your title, description, content and alt tags of your web page. This increases your keyword density and helps in boosting your ranking.
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